Ayefele Was Not Harassed In Ijare – Group

This comes on the heels of widespread reports that Ayefele was attacked by thugs popularly known as ‘area boys’ at a Saturday, October 3 performance in Ijare, a suburb of Akure in Ondo state.
The Ondo-born singer had been hired to perform at the burial of Madam Ebunoluwa Lydia Odumakinde but thugs showed up at the scene demanding a cut off what he charged as performance fee.
Sources say the singer charged N3million to perform at the burial ceremony.
According to unconfirmed sources, the incident led to 15 people allegedly being injured as a result of the face off.

Efrankb Bllog had earlier reached out to the singer’s camp for a clearer version of how things played out.
David Ajiboye, Ayefele’s manager, who spoke to Efrankb Bllog in an exclusive chat confirmed the attack saying: “Area boys came to Ayefele while performing on stage to ask for money and he promised to give them after his performance, immediately he got off stage Ayefele gave them N100,000.”
Apparently the thugs went away and showed up in another group several times as they made monetary demands which irked the singer and his team who refused to part with anymore cash.
This prompted an attack on a 2015 Ford Explorer in which the singer was conveyed as well as the team’s equipment truck.
Although it was initially stated that none of the band members was injured several other speculations implied otherwise.
However, in a recent statement on Thursday, October 22 the Ijare national students union rejected all claims that Ayefele and his band were assaulted in Ijare.
Mr. Adu Olalekan, the union’s president, revealed via his statement that all talks that the singer was harassed by thugs from the community were a sham.
Olalekan went ahead to persuade Nigerians to ignore reports that Ayefele was assaulted by thugs as a lot of other prominent musicians had been to the town a lot of times to perform without any issue of this sort.
Yinka Ayefele used to work in the media sector as a broadcaster before he ventured into music.
He started his sojourn in music after a 1997 car crash in which he suffered spinal cord injuries. During the period in which he was recuperating, the ‘gospel tungba’ star began composing songs which led to a 1998 album – Bitter Experience.